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GET IT WHILE IT’S HOT Only two more issues of the Summer Trojan remain.
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 164, NO. 4 | www.dailytrojan.com Wednesday, june 11, 2008
Kung fu this
Jack Black and Angelina Jolie star in “Kung Fu
Panda,” an animated flick about a lazy
panda that becomes a kung fu master. 5
Title hopes
The Trojans send 21 athletes to the NCAA
Championships in Des Moines,
Iowa, which begins today. 12
By NATALIE JARVEY
Summer Trojan
Less than a month into con-struction
on the new Ronald Tu-tor
Campus Center, demolition
of Commons is nearly complete,
while construction on the semi-permanent
food lot is set to open
before the start of fall semester,
TrojanHospitality officials said.
The Lot, as TrojanHospital-ity
calls the area that will replace
food options that were lost with
the demolition of Commons, is
an 18,000-square-foot tent. Con-struction
began Feb. 21, and Scott
Shuttleworth, director of Trojan-
Hospitality, said his office expects
to open about one week before
move-in day Aug. 20.
“Our goal is to be on track and
get it open just before move-in to
give the staff a chance to iron out
the operational execution,” Shut-tleworth
said.
The Lot will have eight dining
eateries, a marketplace similar to
the one in Commons, six televi-sion
monitors and both a USC
Credit Union and Bank of Amer-ica
ATM machines. The facility
Food tent will include
eight food vendors,
though the list is not final.
Traddie’s
to reopen
before fall
semester
| see Tent, page 3 |
Here’s to Traditions
A conceptual rendering of the
new version of Traditions, USC’s
on-campus bar, shows that the
updated version is a far cry from
the original. The new Traditions
will sport multiple flat-screen televi-
Rendering courtesy of Chu+Godding Architects
sions along with a sleek new sitting
area. A temporary Traditions will
open in the food tent before the
fall semester, but the final version
(above) will open in the new cam-pus
center in 2010.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Summer Trojan
Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) weren’t
the only two candidates campaign-ing
last week for a coveted spot
at this fall’s Democratic National
Convention.
Hundreds of entrants have been
courting voters in an online con-test
to snag a press pass for the
convention, at which the party of-ficially
names its nominee. Though
Obama amassed enough delegates
to clinch the Democratic nomina-tion
last week, an online battle to
represent Latino youth on the air-waves
wages on with a Trojan as a
frontrunner.
Wendy Carrillo, a 27-year-old
community organizer, radio jour-nalist
and incoming student into
the USC Annenberg School for
Communication master’s program
in specialized journalism, was,
on Tuesday, slightly trailing the
frontrunner in the SiTV’s “Crash
the Party 2008” contest, co-spon-sored
by the Latino cable network
and Vote Latino, an organization
aimed at educating and empower-ing
Latino voters.
Two winners will be selected
based on results from the online
voting, which ends June 18, and
input from a panel of celebrity
judges.
Entrants uploaded video essays
to personal profile pages about
why they should represent SiTV
viewers at the convention and the
issues they think are most impor-tant
to the Latino community.
Carrillo hopes by focusing on a
wide range of issues important to
young voters, she can chip away at
the public perception that immi-gration
is the only issue that mat-ters
to Latino voters.
Though the immigration debate
has dominated media coverage of
the Latino community over the
A leading Latino cable network will give two students press
passes to the Democratic National Convention in August.
USC student campaigns for ticket to Denver
| see Carrillo, page 3 |
Latino voting base statistics
50,000
Latinos only made
up about 6 percent
of the electorate in
2004.
Exit polls show
President Bush won
33 to 40 percent of
the Latino vote
in 2004.
Latinos make up
14 percent of
America’s overall
population.
7.5 million
Latinos turn 18 in America daily.
Opinion | The
departure of
former USC
basketball
player O.J.
Mayo raises
questions about
how much to
praise athletes,
writes Kartik
Sreepada.
PAGE 4
Latinos cast their ballots in 2004.

GET IT WHILE IT’S HOT Only two more issues of the Summer Trojan remain.
Student Newspaper of the University of Southern California Since 1912 | VOL. 164, NO. 4 | www.dailytrojan.com Wednesday, june 11, 2008
Kung fu this
Jack Black and Angelina Jolie star in “Kung Fu
Panda,” an animated flick about a lazy
panda that becomes a kung fu master. 5
Title hopes
The Trojans send 21 athletes to the NCAA
Championships in Des Moines,
Iowa, which begins today. 12
By NATALIE JARVEY
Summer Trojan
Less than a month into con-struction
on the new Ronald Tu-tor
Campus Center, demolition
of Commons is nearly complete,
while construction on the semi-permanent
food lot is set to open
before the start of fall semester,
TrojanHospitality officials said.
The Lot, as TrojanHospital-ity
calls the area that will replace
food options that were lost with
the demolition of Commons, is
an 18,000-square-foot tent. Con-struction
began Feb. 21, and Scott
Shuttleworth, director of Trojan-
Hospitality, said his office expects
to open about one week before
move-in day Aug. 20.
“Our goal is to be on track and
get it open just before move-in to
give the staff a chance to iron out
the operational execution,” Shut-tleworth
said.
The Lot will have eight dining
eateries, a marketplace similar to
the one in Commons, six televi-sion
monitors and both a USC
Credit Union and Bank of Amer-ica
ATM machines. The facility
Food tent will include
eight food vendors,
though the list is not final.
Traddie’s
to reopen
before fall
semester
| see Tent, page 3 |
Here’s to Traditions
A conceptual rendering of the
new version of Traditions, USC’s
on-campus bar, shows that the
updated version is a far cry from
the original. The new Traditions
will sport multiple flat-screen televi-
Rendering courtesy of Chu+Godding Architects
sions along with a sleek new sitting
area. A temporary Traditions will
open in the food tent before the
fall semester, but the final version
(above) will open in the new cam-pus
center in 2010.
By TOREY VAN OOT
Summer Trojan
Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and
Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) weren’t
the only two candidates campaign-ing
last week for a coveted spot
at this fall’s Democratic National
Convention.
Hundreds of entrants have been
courting voters in an online con-test
to snag a press pass for the
convention, at which the party of-ficially
names its nominee. Though
Obama amassed enough delegates
to clinch the Democratic nomina-tion
last week, an online battle to
represent Latino youth on the air-waves
wages on with a Trojan as a
frontrunner.
Wendy Carrillo, a 27-year-old
community organizer, radio jour-nalist
and incoming student into
the USC Annenberg School for
Communication master’s program
in specialized journalism, was,
on Tuesday, slightly trailing the
frontrunner in the SiTV’s “Crash
the Party 2008” contest, co-spon-sored
by the Latino cable network
and Vote Latino, an organization
aimed at educating and empower-ing
Latino voters.
Two winners will be selected
based on results from the online
voting, which ends June 18, and
input from a panel of celebrity
judges.
Entrants uploaded video essays
to personal profile pages about
why they should represent SiTV
viewers at the convention and the
issues they think are most impor-tant
to the Latino community.
Carrillo hopes by focusing on a
wide range of issues important to
young voters, she can chip away at
the public perception that immi-gration
is the only issue that mat-ters
to Latino voters.
Though the immigration debate
has dominated media coverage of
the Latino community over the
A leading Latino cable network will give two students press
passes to the Democratic National Convention in August.
USC student campaigns for ticket to Denver
| see Carrillo, page 3 |
Latino voting base statistics
50,000
Latinos only made
up about 6 percent
of the electorate in
2004.
Exit polls show
President Bush won
33 to 40 percent of
the Latino vote
in 2004.
Latinos make up
14 percent of
America’s overall
population.
7.5 million
Latinos turn 18 in America daily.
Opinion | The
departure of
former USC
basketball
player O.J.
Mayo raises
questions about
how much to
praise athletes,
writes Kartik
Sreepada.
PAGE 4
Latinos cast their ballots in 2004.